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Revived hydropower project to bring forced displacement, Peru communities warn

Strategic planning for development in the Pan Amazon

Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks

Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz

In a big win, Yurok Nation reclaims vital creek and watershed to restore major salmon run

Study shows Vietnam’s ethnic communities’ grapple with hydropower plant impacts

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

EUDR risk classifications omit governance & enforcement failures, critics say

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

USAID cut curbs hopes at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area

Ahead of hosting COP30, Brazil is set to weaken environmental licensing

Amazon illegal gold mines drive sex trafficking in the Brazil-Guyana border

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations

In Nepal, confrontation looms over controversial cable car project as court lifts stay order

Meet Pedro Porras, the priest who first rediscovered Amazon ancient cities

Indigenous Bajo suffer child deaths & toxic sludge amid green energy push

Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law

West Sulawesi erupts in protest over sand mining for Indonesia’s new capital

Chile draws road map for peace in Mapuche land conflict, but concerns remain

In New Guinea, megadiverse lowland forests are most at risk of deforestation

An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation (commentary)

New forest loss data beef up Amazon deforestation case against Casino Group

German supermarket palm oil linked to Indigenous rights abuses in Guatemala

Bolivia expels members of fake nation Kailasa over Indigenous land lease scandal

Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

‘We can’t talk solutions without understanding complexities: Kari Guajajara on Brazil’s Amazon

At the U.N., mining groups tout protections for Indigenous peoples

Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

Viral standoff at Philippines’ Mt. Pinatubo exposes decades of Indigenous exclusion

Report shows policy gaps in safeguarding the carbon rights of forest communities

Cable car project in Nepal under fire for flawed environmental review

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